Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons™
Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
- Keyword
-
- African American (4)
- Autism (3)
- Children (3)
- New media (3)
- State politics (3)
-
- Adolescence (2)
- Adolescents (2)
- Alcohol (2)
- Assessment (2)
- Authenticity (2)
- College students (2)
- Culture (2)
- Delinquency (2)
- Forensic anthropology (2)
- Framing (2)
- Hurricanes (2)
- Intellectual disabilities (2)
- Motivation (2)
- Obesity (2)
- Paleotempestology (2)
- Reliability (2)
- Rhetorical criticism (2)
- Social support (2)
- Voodoo (2)
- 24 (1)
- ADC (1)
- AIDS dementia (1)
- Academic discourse (1)
- Activated carbon fiber (1)
- Adherence (1)
- Publication
- Publication Type
Articles 1 - 30 of 119
Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
The Chinese Scramble In East Africa: The Growing Interest Of China In Uganda, Kenya, And Tanzania, Ara Jannie Jo
The Chinese Scramble In East Africa: The Growing Interest Of China In Uganda, Kenya, And Tanzania, Ara Jannie Jo
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Rocking The Vote: An Analysis Of What Makes The Millennial Generation Vote And The Correlation Of Civic Engagement To Empathy, Gabrielle Michelle Martinez
Rocking The Vote: An Analysis Of What Makes The Millennial Generation Vote And The Correlation Of Civic Engagement To Empathy, Gabrielle Michelle Martinez
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
The Ambidextrous Librarian Or "You Can Teach A Middle-Aged Dog Some New Tricks!", Mitchell J. Fontenot
The Ambidextrous Librarian Or "You Can Teach A Middle-Aged Dog Some New Tricks!", Mitchell J. Fontenot
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Mathematics Library News 4, Aaron Lercher
Determining The Accepability Of Menus And Recipes That Meet The 2005 Dietary Guidelines For Americans By Low Socioeconomic Status Individuals In South Louisiana Using Focus Group Discussions, Anna L. Mullenix
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
The Power Of Language: In Politics, Genocide, And Politicide, Heather Rademacher
The Power Of Language: In Politics, Genocide, And Politicide, Heather Rademacher
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
China’S Evolving Preoccupation With Stability And Its Role As The Primary Catalyst Of The Post-Mao Legal Reforms, Reid Tepfer
China’S Evolving Preoccupation With Stability And Its Role As The Primary Catalyst Of The Post-Mao Legal Reforms, Reid Tepfer
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
A Juxtaposition Of Current Federal Campaign Finance And Lobbying Law, Elizabeth Weiner
A Juxtaposition Of Current Federal Campaign Finance And Lobbying Law, Elizabeth Weiner
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
“Solidarity And Solidarność: A Search For The Person In Community”, Elizabeth Mary Johnson
“Solidarity And Solidarność: A Search For The Person In Community”, Elizabeth Mary Johnson
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Free Press V. Fair Trials: A Comparative Study Of Media Law And Ethics In The United States And Great Britain, Alison Spindler
Free Press V. Fair Trials: A Comparative Study Of Media Law And Ethics In The United States And Great Britain, Alison Spindler
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Mathematics Library News 3, Aaron Lercher
Dialogue In Three Prose Tracts Of John Milton, Lora Catherine Lamb
Dialogue In Three Prose Tracts Of John Milton, Lora Catherine Lamb
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
The Influence Of Radiographic Expertise On Visual Memory And Attention, Emily A. Smitherman
The Influence Of Radiographic Expertise On Visual Memory And Attention, Emily A. Smitherman
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
Richard Rorty's Map Of Political Misreading, Shaun Kenan King
Richard Rorty's Map Of Political Misreading, Shaun Kenan King
LSU Master's Theses
For more than a quarter century, Richard Rorty was one of the most controversial writers. Critics of Rorty have often clustered their remarks around distinct themes within Rorty’s body of literature. Is Rorty’s criticism of the correspondence theory of truth valid and what standard of validity could confirm that? Does Rorty’s treatment of pragmatists such as William James and John Dewey accurately reflect their writings? Is Rorty’s brand of liberalism defensible when it assumes no non-circular form of justification can be proffered? These are the questions most often addressed by Rorty’s critics. He responded to their objections for two decades. …
From The Mountains To The Podium: The Rhetoric Of Fidel Castro, Brent C. Kice
From The Mountains To The Podium: The Rhetoric Of Fidel Castro, Brent C. Kice
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation examines the rhetoric utilized by Fidel Castro that Castro used in order to maintain his tenure as the sole leader of Cuba for almost 50 years. Castro employs identification through division with an enemy, and he is able to perpetuate this division through an ongoing, dynamically perceived narrative. This narrative takes shape in the form of “the revolution,” a rhetorical construction designed to create a collective Cuban identity, which, in turn, is furthered through ideology by Castro’s elimination of competing points of views. Castro’s unique role as narrator has allowed him to adapt to events and maintain this …
Processes And/Of Performance: Difference, Memory, And Experimentation, Benjamin Daniel Powell
Processes And/Of Performance: Difference, Memory, And Experimentation, Benjamin Daniel Powell
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This study enacts performance analyses by combining experimental and avant-garde performance practices of artists or art movements such as John Cage, Jerzy Grotowski, Dadaism, and Eugenio Barba with the differential philosophies of Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze. By focusing on the ways that performance practice informs understandings of “the ghost” and différance in Derrida’s theories, and processes of production and experimentation in Deleuze’s, this study examines performance as a process of negotiating practice and theory that continues to produce rather than disappear. To reinforce the productive capacity of performance, this study looks at three different sites and the processes at …
Distinguishing Among Recollection, Familiarity, And Uncertainty: Categorizing The Subjective Basis For Memory Retrieval, Leigh Grace Rougeou
Distinguishing Among Recollection, Familiarity, And Uncertainty: Categorizing The Subjective Basis For Memory Retrieval, Leigh Grace Rougeou
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
On The Rational Conceivability Of Miracles, Martha Mary Morangé
On The Rational Conceivability Of Miracles, Martha Mary Morangé
Honors Theses
No abstract provided.
New Media In New Democracies: Perceptions Of Good Governance Among Traditional And Internet-Based Media Users In Kyrgyzstan, Svetlana Viktorovna Kulikova
New Media In New Democracies: Perceptions Of Good Governance Among Traditional And Internet-Based Media Users In Kyrgyzstan, Svetlana Viktorovna Kulikova
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation explores the potential and role of the Internet-based media in the Kyrgyz Republic’s political processes after the 2005 March Revolution. It uses a model of interaction between the government and citizens through various types of realities: the reality constructed and imposed by the state-controlled media, the reality created by alternative, independent sources of information online, and the realities experienced by citizens in their daily lives. The model pulled together various theories from political science, sociology, psychology, and mass communication and focused on the exit-voice-loyalty options available for the citizens in response to governance practices. The research project uses …
Latino Representation In U.S. Legislatures: Interests, Behavior, And Influence, Stella M. Rouse
Latino Representation In U.S. Legislatures: Interests, Behavior, And Influence, Stella M. Rouse
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Despite the growth of Latinos in the general population and in legislatures, their impact on the political process has received little scholarly attention. In this project, I present a theoretical framework of Latino legislative behavior that draws upon two important concepts of representation- descriptive and substantive- to better understand how ethnicity influences legislative activity and whether it is dependent on such factors as institutional context, legislative composition, and constituency characteristics. The project is unique in its comprehensive analysis of the legislative process and in its mixed methodological approach which includes both quantitative and qualitative elements. The analysis involves five parts: …
A Longitudinal Study Of Married Women's Probability Of Being Housewives In Reforming Urban China, Chiung-Yin Hu
A Longitudinal Study Of Married Women's Probability Of Being Housewives In Reforming Urban China, Chiung-Yin Hu
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This study examines married women’s employment status and the factors associated with their being full-time housewives between 1989 and 2004 in urban China. I argue that the transition from a command economy to a market-oriented economy since the early 1980s has had negative impacts on married women’s labor force participation. Using six waves of the Chinese Health and Nutrition Survey (1989, 1991, 1993, 1997, 2000, and 2004), I find that the percentages of full-time housewives in urban China tripled in just 15 years, and the largest amount of growth occurred in the most recent period. Regression analyses confirm that married …
Cause Of Hispanic Homicides In Major Metropolitan Areas, Michael Gregory Bisciglia
Cause Of Hispanic Homicides In Major Metropolitan Areas, Michael Gregory Bisciglia
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Research investigating the relationship between segregation and crime has been extensively examined in the literature. Although numerous studies have looked at segregation’s influence homicides, most have focused on African Americans. This study extends current research by focusing on Hispanic segregation and homicide victimization. Using a 236 city sample, homicides are shown to rise when Hispanics are segregated from Whites. In comparison, a 208 city sample finds that segregation also contributes to a rise in African American homicides. It was also expected that the more homogeneous Hispanic population would reduce homicides, but such an association was not present in the full …
The Anomaly Of Racial Variance In Female Perpetrated Spousal Killing: A Structural Explanation, Mark Melder
The Anomaly Of Racial Variance In Female Perpetrated Spousal Killing: A Structural Explanation, Mark Melder
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
ABSTRACT Research investigating the relationship of structural factors to homicide abounds in the literature. There is also extant research on female perpetrated intimate partner killings (IPK). However this literature for the most part has examined the phenomenon itself, or has disaggregated the rates by race, where it was discovered that there is a racial anomaly in intimate killings, Black females kill their partners at a higher rate than White females. This research sought to determine how structural factors function to differentially amplify this rate, using classic controls for homicide and adding measures for the presence of female kin, the presence …
Assessing The Effectiveness Of The Response To Instruction Model For English Language Learners By Utilizing A Non-Language-Based Intervention, Chisato Komatsu
Assessing The Effectiveness Of The Response To Instruction Model For English Language Learners By Utilizing A Non-Language-Based Intervention, Chisato Komatsu
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The purpose of the current investigation was to examine the use of the Response to Intervention (RTI) model for English Language learners (ELLs) by using a computerized constant time delay procedure (CTD) that de-emphasized the use of language. Forty-five ELLs, 22 native English speakers, and five students with a diagnosis of mild mental retardation participated in the study. A computer-administered CTD procedure was utilized for paired associate tasks. The study found differences and patterns in students’ performances that could be used to differentiate responders and non-responders to intervention. An interesting finding was that once the students were divided into groups …
The Reliability And Validity Of Screening Measures In Reading, James Albert Van Hook
The Reliability And Validity Of Screening Measures In Reading, James Albert Van Hook
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
National educational groups have recommended the use of universal screening to assist in the early identification of reading problems. One of the most widely used measures used for the universal screening of reading is oral reading fluency (ORF) (Fewster & Macmillan, 2002). However, ORF is somewhat time consuming to administer and has been reported to lack “face validity” with teachers (Fuchs, Fuchs & Maxwell, 1988). The purpose of this study was to investigate maze and other group-administered reading assessments because of their potential as a time efficient assessment that is as psychometrically valid as ORF. In this study, maze and …
A Rhetoric Of Existentialism, Zachary Gershberg
A Rhetoric Of Existentialism, Zachary Gershberg
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Existentialism is often viewed as a morbid philosophy but adapting it to a rhetorical framework reveals a consistent interest in the ontological function of communication. The exchange of discourse and symbols is what ties humans together and existentialism examines the meaning that abounds in life as opposed to attempting to discover the meaning of life. As a rhetorical construct, existentialism provides a critical and unique view of agency and edification as a method of rhetorical practice.
Grinding The Axe Body Spray: Linking Gamer Experience And Brand Recall In Guitar Hero Iii, Miranda Coy Lemon
Grinding The Axe Body Spray: Linking Gamer Experience And Brand Recall In Guitar Hero Iii, Miranda Coy Lemon
LSU Master's Theses
The growth in popularity of social video games that appeal to a wide variety of audiences offers new opportunities for in-game advertisers to reach beyond the traditional gamer market. The current study aimed to test the effectiveness of in-game advertising placements in the popular video game, Guitar Hero III, based on the Limited Capacity Model of Mediated Motivated Message Processing (LC4MP). The Limited Capacity Model predicts that experienced gamers utilize fewer mental resources when playing video games because the repeated action of playing video games eventually becomes automatic. An experienced gamer would therefore have a greater capacity to remember in-game …
The Rhetorical Myth Of The Athlete As A Moral Hero: The Implications Of Steroids In Sport And The Threatened Myth, Karen L. Hartman
The Rhetorical Myth Of The Athlete As A Moral Hero: The Implications Of Steroids In Sport And The Threatened Myth, Karen L. Hartman
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This research analyzes changes in the rhetoric of a sustaining myth in order to better assess what happens when a myth is threatened. By examining American sport and its current struggle to withstand the widespread use of steroids, the author investigates how public discourse about the scandal turns athletes from mythical heroes to cheaters. The author begins by explicating the rhetorical construction of the athlete as a moral hero in America and how this myth is perpetuated today. The author then examines how steroids threaten the myth of the moral athlete and uses Major League Baseball as a case study …
Legislative Participation In The American States: Determinants And Consequences, Mileah Kay Kromer
Legislative Participation In The American States: Determinants And Consequences, Mileah Kay Kromer
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This research seeks to analyze the variability in participation across legislators at the state level and to consider the potential consequences of participatory behavior. In this dissertation, I draw on theories of political participation, legislative goals, and state political institutions to explain participation in state legislative activities. To begin with, I examine legislative participation across the legislative process, considering the determinants of sponsorship and roll-call participation. Next, I examine the consequences that participation has for legislators focusing on challenger emergence in the general election. My research demonstrates that legislative participation varies systematically across individual, institutional, and state level variables. However, …
Hierarchical Linear Modeling Against The "Gold Standard" Of Visual Analysis In Single-Subject Design, Elizabeth S, Godbold
Hierarchical Linear Modeling Against The "Gold Standard" Of Visual Analysis In Single-Subject Design, Elizabeth S, Godbold
LSU Master's Theses
Visual analysis is the “Gold Standard” for single-subject data because of two assumptions: a low Type I error rate and consistency across raters. However, research has shown it less reliable and accurate than desired. Autocorrelation, variability, trend, lack of obvious mean shift, and differences in the physical presentation of graphs contribute to inconsistencies and higher error rates. Statistical analysis has been advocated as a judgmental aid to visual analysis, but an appropriate statistic has not been found. In the present study, the accuracy of Hierarchical Linear Modeling was compared to raters’ visual analysis of previously published data using Receiver Operating …